Recalling that the significant progress made in the relations between
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States
since 1977 has contributed to the deepening of ties in all fields of
cooperation, and such has been nurtured through the annual ASEAN Post
Ministerial Conference, the ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue at senior officials'
level, and other fora;

Further recalling the meeting between Leaders of ASEAN Member Countries
which are members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and
the President of the United States during the APEC Economic Leaders'
Meeting at Los Cabos, Mexico on 26 October 2002, and the announcement
by the United States that year of the Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative
(EAI) and the ASEAN Cooperation Plan (ACP) which have contributed to
growing cooperation between ASEAN and the United States in numerous
areas of interest;

Welcoming the continuing progress in ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue Relations
recently, particularly following the meeting between the ASEAN Foreign
Ministers and the Secretary of State of the United States in New York on
12 September 2005;

Sharing a common desire to live with one another and with the world at
large in a just, democratic, and harmonious environment, and in this
context, recognizing that equitable, democratic, and caring societies
are the foundation for durable peace, stability, and shared prosperity;

Expressing the need to work closely to help alleviate poverty and
address development gaps in ASEAN, through sustained economic growth and
enhanced economic interaction and links between ASEAN and the United
States, and joint efforts in nurturing human, cultural, and natural
resources for sustainable development, and to further build on the
existing friendship, goodwill, understanding, and people-to-people
linkages between ASEAN and the United States;

Reaffirming support for the principles and purposes of the Charter of
the United Nations (UN) and other universally recognized principles of
international law;

Expressing a common interest in the development of ASEAN as a regional
institution that will effectively contribute to peace, prosperity, and
stability in Southeast Asia and the world, and recognizing the important
contribution of the United States to maintaining peace and stability and
to promoting prosperity;

Sharing a great interest in the success of ASEAN's efforts in pursuing
comprehensive integration towards the realization of an open and
outward-looking, dynamic and resilient ASEAN Community by 2020 and a
Southeast Asia bonded together in partnership as a community of caring
societies, as envisioned in the Declaration of ASEAN Concord II;

Expressing desire to further increase cooperation and friendship between
ASEAN and the United States to seize the opportunities and meet the
challenges of an increasingly interdependent world.

ASEAN and the United States hereby:

1. Agree to launch an ASEAN-United States Enhanced Partnership that is
comprehensive, action-oriented, and forward-looking, and comprising
political and security cooperation, economic cooperation, and social and
development cooperation including, but not limited to, the following
elements:

Political and Security Cooperation
2. Support the integration of ASEAN, leading to an ASEAN Community
through, inter alia, the implementation of the Vientiane Action
Programme (VAP) and appropriate successor plans;

3. Acknowledge that the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast
Asia (TAC) acts as a code of conduct governing inter-State relations in
the region for the promotion of peace and stability, and its role as a
unifying concept for ASEAN, and respect the spirit and principles of the
TAC, in line with the commitment of ASEAN and the United States to
enhance their partnership;

4. Support the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) as the premier regional
political and security forum in the Asia-Pacific region with ASEAN as
the driving force;

5. Recognize the importance of non-proliferation in all aspects of
nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia;

6. Promote closer cooperation on combating transnational crimes,
including inter alia, terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, illicit drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, and
enhancing maritime and border security, and express readiness to build
on the ASEAN-United States Joint Declaration for Cooperation to Combat
International Terrorism signed in Bandar Seri Begawan in 2002 to develop
joint activities;

7. Cooperate in multilateral frameworks, including the UN, the World
Trade Organization (WTO), and the APEC, emphasize the importance of
ambitious outcomes in the Doha Round that would bring tangible benefits
to all, support the early accession of Laos and Viet Nam to the WTO, and
consider the admission of ASEAN Member Countries that are not members of
APEC into that forum;

Economic Cooperation
8. Strengthen economic cooperation by, inter alia, continuing to
implement the EAI, which serves as a mechanism to enhance trade and
investment flows between ASEAN and the United States, and in this
regard, agree to work together to conclude a region-wide ASEAN-United
States Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA);

9. Further enhance economic linkages, which will assist in sustaining
economic growth in ASEAN and the U.S., and cooperate jointly in support
of ASEAN's realization of an ASEAN Economic Community by 2020, if not
earlier;

10. Enhance economic cooperation in areas to be mutually agreed upon
between ASEAN and the U.S., including but not limited to trade and
investment facilitation; and undertake missions and measures to
strengthen the investment climate in ASEAN thereby encouraging U.S.
investment into the region;

11. Collaborate to reform and strengthen international financial
institutions in the areas of economic surveillance through the sharing
of macroeconomic and financial information where disclosure of
information is permitted by domestic laws and regulations of the
respective countries, and agree to work more closely in international
financial institutions to promote the influence of Asia to a level more
commensurate with its economic weight;

12. Promote greater interaction between their respective private
sectors, recognizing the pivotal role of the business community;

13. Pursue the development and deployment of cleaner, more efficient
energy technologies of all kinds, including renewable and other
low-emitting sources of energy, enhance ASEAN's regional energy
infrastructure, promote energy security, promote the protection of the
environment and the sustainability of natural resources, recognizing
that economic growth is a necessary condition for deploying the cleaner
technologies needed for continued environmental improvement, and pledge
further collaboration in all modes of transport, including air maritime
and multimodal transport to facilitate the movement of peoples and
goods;

Social and Development Cooperation
14. Collaborate in the implementation of the Vientiane Action Programme
(VAP) and its successor programmes or plans so that ASEAN may accelerate
its regional integration, recognizing the importance of the Initiative
for ASEAN Integration (IAI) and other sub-regional growth areas which
would bridge the development gaps within ASEAN, and stress the
importance of cooperation to promote sustainable development;

15. Cooperate at the regional and global levels on disaster management,
including the development of regional and global standby arrangements
for disaster management and emergency response, and in this connection,
welcome the ASEAN Standby Arrangements for Disaster Relief and Emergency
Response;

16. Resolve to work together to prevent the spread and reduce the harm
of HIV/AIDs, SARS, other infectious diseases and, on an urgent basis,
develop mechanisms for cooperation to contain outbreaks of avian
influenza as well as pledge cooperation to put in place systems and
procedures to control infectious diseases including animal diseases;

17. Foster and deepen cooperation in science and technology, and
information and communications technology and encourage people-to-people
interactions and exchanges as well as inter-faith dialogues, and promote
cooperation through networking activities and capacity building in
education such as student exchange, fellowship programme, academic
attachment and research collaboration, as well as promotion of ASEAN
studies in the U.S. and U.S. studies in ASEAN Member Countries;

18. Welcome the intention of the U.S. to foster educational exchanges
and the continuing efforts of the U.S. to strengthen its engagement with
the ASEAN Secretariat and support the capacity building of the
Secretariat;

Follow-Up
19. Call on the ASEAN Foreign Ministers and the U.S. Secretary
of State, with the assistance of the senior officials, to develop a Plan
of Action to implement the ASEAN-United States Enhanced Partnership;

20. Call on the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) and the United States
Trade Representative (USTR) to meet and contribute to the implementation
of the ASEAN-U.S. Enhanced Partnership and its Plan of Action.